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RIAA wins lawsuit against university for student info
Unfortunately for the little guy, it's hard to win them all. In fact, it's hard to win period against the RIAA, as 53 students at UW-Madison may soon find out. Recently, a federal judge found in favor of the RIAA as they requested the names and other information of 53 potential filesharers. While none of them have yet been served, we all know the RIAA is not above going after financially strapped students. Things such as names, addresses, telephone numbers, e-mail addresses and MAC addresses are being released. The University, to its credit, stood up to the RIAA initially. Now, however, it'll be in the hands of each individual student to decide whether or not they settle or take it to court.
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User Comments (6)
Post a comment| boogityboo04 on April 26, 2007 8:50 PM | Living in Madison myself, this just kinda annoys me.
The RIAA should stop trying to frighten people by suing the little guy. It's not like the money they win off these cases is actually getting to artists they say they are trying to protect.
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| nathanskywalker on April 26, 2007 11:28 PM | Couldn't that be called "searching without warrant?"
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| phantasm66 on April 27, 2007 1:52 AM | Originally posted by boogityboo04:
Exactly. Its not about recovering lost profits... its about intimidation. Its about bullying. And picking on some of the poorest and youngest folks in society (when they are hardly the only culprits) is cowardly and pathetic.
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| PanicX on April 28, 2007 4:34 AM | Nearly all network cards and I assume most ISP modems, have the ability to alter the MAC address. Modifying this a couple times a month would be a real pain for anyone trying to pin activities on you.
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| phantasm66 on April 28, 2007 6:25 AM | Recently, the RIAA also tripled the fees they charge Internet Radio providers, which will effectively kill things like Pandora.
http://www.pandora.com/ http://blog.pandora.com/pandora/archives/2007/03/riaas_new_royal.html http://www.zeropaid.com/news/8685/Is+the+RIAA+Pulling+a+Scam+on+the+Music+Industry%3F
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| bighead2007 on April 30, 2007 10:32 AM | What about all the RIAA personel children, I'm pretty sure not one member on the board doesn't have a child who share files illegal. Why not start in the home 1st.
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